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Jane Austen was an English novelist who was as funny as she was flippant – in other words, my kind of girl.

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Anyone who likes David Sedaris is automatically good people. If you catch him reading Amy Sedaris, though, you marry him.

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Unfortunately, most literature is food for the love hungry — not the love satisfied. But if you can focus while your brain chemicals are raging, here are some books that will teach you something about that wonderful thing called love.

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When it comes to Gwyneth Paltrow, I’ve always been in something of a gray zone. She’s beautiful and talented, and I loved her in movies like Emma, Sliding Doors and even Shallow Hal. But she’s always kind of annoyed me, too. Maybe it’s the combination of physical perfection and her affectation of superiority and extreme erudition in interviews.